Sketches
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:
`Notes about tartans` of John Francis Campbell, written between 1871 and 1873, ‘while seeking for the real Campbell Clan Tartan’., 1871-1873.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.3.9
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, notes and a few sketches, 1871-1873, 1884, are interspersed throughout the volume. The majority of the letters are from members of the Sobieski Stuart family.
One or two samples of tartan have been bound in at the beginning of the volume.
Dates:
1871-1873.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Collections of Gaelic tales, folklore and proverbs, mainly written by John Dewar; material relating to folklore in general; papers concerning Highland dress; and several volumes relating to Irish language and folklore.
Notes on funerary trappings and the order of a funeral procession, by Sir James Balfour., 1633.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(iv)
Scope and Contents
This is a continuation of the notes at the end of 34.4.16(iii), which became detached. There are two sketches of hearses.
Dates:
1633.
Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography., 1848-1885.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.5.7-50.7.8
Dates:
1848-1885.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Papers of and concerning David Livingstone., ? 1852-1982.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42420-42442
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...
Dates:
? 1852-1982.
Recordings of sun-spots from December 1883 to 1884 accompanied by meteorological notes and diagrams., 1881, 1883-1884.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.7.5
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains several rough watercolour sketches of Scottish scenes, dated August 1881, and some earlier solar experiments with related cuttings, 1881.
Dates:
1881, 1883-1884.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.
Volume containing watercolour sketches, photographs, maps and geological notes of John Francis Campbell, recording a visit he made to North America in the autumn of 1864., 1864.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.4.1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The volumes reflect, in his detailed descriptions, watercolours and sketches, Campbell’s interest in people, art, science and sport. In the later journals, his interest in geology and meteorology predominates, with particular emphasis on the effects of glaciation observed in various countries.
The sketches usually occur in chronological sequence with notes below each giving the date, place and other additional information.
Dates:
1864.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world.
Volume entitled ‘Solar Spherical Scale for Sketching’, dated May 1881, Naples, containing a number of diagrams and sketches., 1881.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.7.3
Dates:
1881.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.